forlorn

How to use forlorn in a sentence

The artist’s mother has a recurring role, and the show’s title comes from a forlorn message on an electronic sign outside the local middle school.

Patrick Hamlin is a forlorn East Coast writer who heads west and is quickly disillusioned by the seedy underbelly of Hollywood.

The piece concludes with “Your Blanket,” a forlorn ballad played over watercolor illustrations that capture life’s simple elegance.

Probably the biggest trade was Taylor Hall going to the Boston Bruins from the forlorn Buffalo Sabres.

"I wasn't joking last night when I told Goodell that this was something of a forlorn hope," he said.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

"The high and mighty sent me out to lead a forlorn hope," Mac dryly responded.

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It ended in a broad open moor, stony; and full of damp boggy hollows, forlorn and desolate under the autumn sky.

The same old battalions being called on again and again to do the forlorn hope sort of business.

I was more than ready to take her place; you actually stirred my maternal instincts when you arrived, you looked so forlorn.

ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON

In an obscure alley, in the town of Homestead, there stands a one-story frame house, looking old and forlorn.

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